Reviews round-up
Shattered Lands
by Sam Dalrymple
2 of 4 critics positive
5 reviews: 1 rave, 1 positive, 2 mixed; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Rave
Read the review ↗“Wonderful telling of a sad history”
Shattered Lands. Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia: Wonderful telling of a sad history
Positive
Read the review ↗“A deeply researched history that examines colonial and post-colonial faultlines”
Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple review – the many partitions of southern Asia
Mixed
Read the review ↗“an imperious view of the British Raj's collapse, redeemed by its forgotten stories”
The partitions that made modern Asia
Mixed
Read the review ↗“gently nostalgic for the old empire's cosmopolitan flavour”
The British Raj — it wasn’t totally awful
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗“There are many mansions in the house of history but some are built on strange foundations.”
Nostalgic fantasies of the British Raj
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
